Feminism, Foucault, and Embodied Subjectivity (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780791455135
Subjects: Social & political philosophy; Subjectivity; General; Philosophy; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Foucault, Michel; Political; Feminist theory
Description: "Addressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his seemingly contradictory position on subjectivity and his resistance to using identity as a political category, McLaren argues that Foucault employs a conception of embodied subjectivity that is well-suited for feminism.

She applies Foucault's notion of practices of the self to contemporary feminist practices, such as consciousness-raising and autobiography, and concludes that the connection between self-transformation and social transformation that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist theory and politics."--BOOK JACKET.